Sharron Angle's war on Canada

Last week during their debate, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle told Democrat Harry Reid to "man up." But it's time for Angle to own up to her own incessant race-baiting over immigration.

A couple of weeks ago, Angle released an ad with sinister overtones showing Latino "illegal immigrants" sneaking through a "border fence." It even uses a stock photo Republican Senator David Vitter deployed in a similar advertisement. The ad restates a number of debunked claims about Reid's record on immigration, but the most egregious part of the ad is where she contrasts an image of "scary-looking" Latino "migrants" with a group of happy, white college students while saying, "Reid wants to give "preferred college tuition rates to none other than illegal aliens." The DREAM Act, to which the ad was referring, would grant a path to citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants who were brought here before the age of 16 -- not to people who had crossed the border illegally under their own agency. She had released a similarly racially tinged ad weeks earlier.

But during an appearance before a group of Hispanic children at Rancho High School in Nevada, Angle implausibly claimed she had no idea that the people in the ad were meant to be Hispanic, and claimed the ad was about the "northern border." From Las Vegas Sun reporter Jon Ralston:

Question: Why is it that in all of your commercials you have the image of Latinos? What do you see when you hear, and I quote, "illegal aliens?"

Angle: I think that you're misinterpreting those commercials. I'm not sure that those are Latinos in that commercial. What it is, is a fence and there are people coming across that fence. What we know is that our northern border is where the terrorists came through. That's the most porous border that we have. We cannot allow terrorists; we cannot allow anyone to come across our border if we don't know why they're coming. So we have to secure all of our borders and that's what that was about, is border security. Not just our southern border, but our coastal border and our northern border.

This is an example of how racism in politics works these days -- when a political candidate wants to exploit racial animus, all he or she has to do is leave themselves some semblance of plausible deniability. The problem is, Angle didn't leave herself any. When confronted by a high school student about her inaccurate, race-baiting ads demonizing Latinos, Angle dissembled and suggested she's actually concerned about a massive influx of Canadians. Then after demonizing Latinos, she has the chutzpah to ask for their votes.

It's not like this was the first time the content of Angle's ads had been brought to her attention either. Last month, chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Hispanic Caucus Tibi Ellis, who has also acted spokesman for Angle's campaign, condemned the earlier Angle immigration ad as "propaganda." About a week later, Angle released the other one.

And Reid's the one who supposedly has a hard time taking responsibility for himself?

For some reason, Harry Reid did not prepare enough, or did not get enough rest before the debate.

Now Reid's plan to only have one debate has hurt him, because Reid doesn't have one or two other debates to recover and tidy up his image.

I have serious doubts about Harry Reid's judgement.

Harry Reid is the one who decided to declare the Iraqi War lost and that just sent the wrong message, domestically, in Iraq and to the rest of the world. Again, the debates were another mistake. The partisan democrats refuse to evaluate their people and they expect the public to take whoever they advance without proper evaluation.

Damn Canadians. They took advantage of Palin having to watch Russia all the time, to build up their Nexus of Illegal Immigrants Apparatus. Sarah should never have turned her back to Canada. Now Arizona is being flooded with Canadian Baconbacks. You betcha!

Sharron Angle is a PSYCHOPATH and anyone who is an apologist for her is equally delusional.

This is another perfect example that demonstrably shows that the Republican Tea Party is unable or reluctant to comprehend their own false reality. Sharron Angle is literally sick in the head and any people who defend her are equally demented.

Who couldn't have seen this coming? The Shiites are shutting out The Sunnis, from any real participation in Government, and in fact al-Maliki has recently formed a coalition with Mukhtar Al-Sadr, of Mahdi army notority.

"Sunnis in Iraq Allied With U.S. Rejoin Rebels"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/middleeast/17awakening.html

"BAQUBA, Iraq — Members of United States-allied Awakening Councils have quit or been dismissed from their positions in significant numbers in recent months, prey to an intensive recruitment campaign by the Sunni insurgency, according to government officials, current and former members of the Awakening and insurgents.

Although there are no firm figures, security and political officials say hundreds of the well-disciplined fighters — many of whom have gained extensive knowledge about the American military — appear to have rejoined Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Beyond that, officials say that even many of the Awakening fighters still on the Iraqi government payroll, possibly thousands of them, covertly aid the insurgency.

The defections have been driven in part by frustration with the Shiite-led government, which Awakening members say is intent on destroying them, as well as by pressure from Al Qaeda. The exodus has accelerated since Iraq’s inconclusive parliamentary elections in March, which have left Sunnis uncertain of retaining what little political influence they have and which appear to have provided Al Qaeda new opportunities to lure back fighters.

The Awakening members’ switch in loyalties poses a new threat to Iraq’s tenuous social and political balance during the country’s ongoing political crisis and as the United States military prepares to withdraw next year.

“The Awakening doesn’t know what the future holds because it is not clear what the government intends for them,” said Nathum al-Jubouri, a former Awakening Council leader in Salahuddin Province who recently quit the organization.

“At this point, Awakening members have two options: Stay with the government, which would be a threat to their lives, or help Al Qaeda by being a double agent,” he said. “The Awakening is like a database for Al Qaeda that can be used to target places that had been out of reach before.” '

Now they are rejoining with the Sunni Rebels, and are better equipped to wage a civil war, thanks to all the training provided to them by Bush/Cheney.

" A week ago Maliki announced an alliance with Muqtada al-SadrMuqtada al-Sadr a new coalition is forming against that group complicating even more the process of forming a new Iraqi government. The different factions have been attempting to build a coalition government since April. Many deals have come and gone with no government being formed.

Al-Sadr has an intense dislike for Maliki and until last week had refused to join any coalition in which Maliki was prime minister. This coalition will have a large Shiite majority and leave most Sunnis out of the government. This no doubt is part of the reason for the new counter coalition that is forming. The new group may have backing from other countries with Sunni majorities such as Saudi Arabia and perhaps Syria and Turkey as well. The U.S. also tacitly supports the group probably because it feels that Iran would have less influence if this group formed the government. Al Sadr also, is a fierce opponent of the U.S. although he is certain no puppet of Iran."

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The Great Day by William Butler Yeats

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!
A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

Don't try to fool us anymore. YOU are Save the Rain Forest. It is clear.

Am I right that the orginial Ethan is the satire?

And then you got upset that no one noticed the satire, so you created another name just to say the OPPOSITE, which is your REAL POSITION ???

Ethan is that it???

You have been exposed. Nice performance. We all get it now. No one could be so silly and gullible to fawn over the democrats and their ridiculous positions the way you have. Anyway, the problem with your satire was the democrats never "got" it. They have been so fooled by Obama that they have fooled themselves.

Plumline reported Angle's position on Gay Rights, back in early august. What did SBJ do. Why he sent another donation to the Angle campaign.

Here is an excerpt from what Greg posted, bach in early August.

"
Sharron Angle: I would refuse money from company that supports gay rights

Sharron Angle has taken some extreme positions, but this one is remarkable even by her standards: She said on a candidate questionnaire that she would refuse political contributions from a private company that backs equal rights for gays and extends benefits to partners of gay employees.

Angle laid out this position in a candidate questionnaire that she filled out for the Washington-based Government is not God PAC.

In question 35A of the questionnaire, Angle was asked:

Would you refuse PAC money from those who are fundamentally opposed to your views on social issues?

Angle checked the Yes box. The questionnaire then asked:

In reference to question 35A, Intel Corporation supports "equal rights for gays" and offers benefits to "partners" of homosexual employees. Would you refuse funds from this corporate PAC?

Angle again checked the Yes box.

The questionnaire was first obtained by the Associated Press, which did a story about it without noting this question and answer from Angle. The AP story noted other eyebrow-raising answers in the questionnaire, such as her support for clergy making political endorsements"

"No one could be so silly and gullible to fawn over the democrats and their ridiculous positions the way you have"

You are delusional and so is Sharron Angle, and so is every single Tea Party candidate.

I am SO GLAD that I live in a state where intellectual thought is valued. We have a Tea Party candidate for Governor in our state and I am glad to say that his irascible lunacy is being SOUNDLY rejected all across the state.

New York State is THE BEST!

We must all reject the delirious hallucinations of the Republican Tea Party. They are nothing more than a hollowed out shell, a pseudo-populist ghost party, that is filled to the brim with extreme-right corporatist propaganda.

Most people know this. Smart, informed voters can see through their lies immediately. Others who are not as tapped in will see it when they learn about how horrific the positions that are taken by Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Rand Paul, Ken Buck, Joe Miller, Pat Toomey, and the rest of the Republican Tea Party NUTJOBS.

Heh. You know, more than one crazy anti-Islamic type on the far radical right has said that we need to be watching our northern boarder, not southern border. To whit: Canada has an immigrant friendly social welfare safety net that is ideal (they claim) for terrorists who need to live off the government dole while planning their terrorist attacks. Any terrorists planning on living in Mexico while planning the next strike against the great Satan would have to pay for food, room and board themselves, and Mexico doesn't have anything like Canada's social services. So sleeper cells are much likely to come across our northern border to wreak havoc than our southern border. Or, so some folks claim.

The population of the state of Delware is less than 900,000, so how many registered voters are there?

The reason why I ask is because right after she won the nomination, Christine claimed that she had already received over four million in contributions.

Now she is whining about how she is not getting helped by the RNC. If she really had raised at least four million dollars, wouldn't that be more than enough to pay for any campaign to reach such a small pool of voters?

Was her claim of having raised over four million just another Big Lie, from She who would never tell a lie, even to The Nazis?

They come here to take the curling positions. And then they use anchor babies to get their entire families here. All of a sudden Maple Syrup demand is up and you hear stories about money flowing north to bring more people in.

You may not like my "style" (I could care less) but you cannot refute my comments substantively because I'm right and so are all of the other Democrats who decry the obscenely out-sized influence that corporate lobbyists have on the Republican Tea Party "trickle-on-America" ideology.

Liam, she just wants to make sure she can steal a lot of her campaign money. If there's more of it it's easier.

Another GOP grifter candidate. Shocker.

Posted by: BGinCHI | October 18, 2010 12:42 PM |
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Does the law still allow candidates to convert left over campaign funds to personnel income, provided the pay income tax on it? I seem to recall that changes had been made, but I don't know if they survived the Supreme Court rulings on campaign finance reforms.

I would expect that should she lose, she will still be able to rake in large appearance fees, on the Tea Party circuit, now that she has become Very Famous for Being Famous, much like Ms. Hilton has.

I still have to laugh when I recall that Jake character from Jimmy Kimmel, standing behind Paris' Lawyer, as he read out the sentence of community service. Jake yelled; Community Service? She has spend her life servicing the community.

Because he has a stereotype that homosexuals should all be Democrats and liberals (because of another stereotype that says all conservatives think homosexuality is a disease or hate gay people). You challenge that stereotype, so either you are lying about your sexuality or have mental problems, Because if you are actually gay, and mentally balanced, then you have an obligation to conform to his stereotypical conception of all people who share your sexual orientation.

Idiot. If it's not about the northern border, then it must be the southern border. If it's the southern border, then by definition it's illegal Latinos. Unless you think illegal Scandinavian immigrants are a big problem in Chula Vista.

Most of the people who are appalled by the Arizona law wouldn't know where Chula Vista is. they sit in places like Cambridge or Boston and feel free to tell those Americans who live on the border how to order their lives.

it is just more liberal conceit. Remember, the liberal dogma explains everything to liberals. That's just the way it is with true believers.

I am so sick of the liars who run for politics. Would someone please tell this BIMBO SHARRON ANGLE OF NEVADA that the 9/11 terrorists DID NOT ENTER THE US THROUGH CANADA. She is spreading this lie either through incredible ignorance on her part or just to create trouble. See below article. Where do some of these rank idiots come from? And why do people vote for these ignoramuses?

'"Reid wants to give "preferred college tuition rates to none other than illegal aliens."'

Then after demonizing Latinos, she has the chutzpah to ask for their votes.'

Wait, she asked illegal alien non-citizens to vote in a Federal Election in clear violation of Federal Law? She tried to get non-citizens to vote for her?

That's awful... oh, and completely untrue.

I guess to you ALL Hispanics are non-citizens Adam? Were you unaware that there are both legal and illegal immigrants? That some Hispanics are here illegally (and can't vote) and some are legal and thus weren't attacked as illegal aliens?

Oh well, keep thinking everyone of the same ethnicity must be exactly the same Adam; oh and that racism and bigotry are bad of course.

Great article... I'm glad to see some employers aren't against hiring the mentally disabled.

Is this Lady for real? I have an honest question that I would like to ask. As a Canadian I am wondering how someone like this could be seriously considered for an executive government position?? In-fact, How is it that Palin could be remotely considered as a possible Presidential candidate?? Are these folks truly the best American has? Very sad..

If Sharron Angle put social security into the hands of her hedgefund friends, how will she keep them from making poor investments with the trust fund and then betting it fails to make a profit as they did with AIG?
When she suggested that some Hispanics might as well be Asians who came in through the porous northern border, did she mean to put Asians in their place rather than draw a comparison to an already despised minority?
Does Sharron man-up when she goes to the mall, church services?
Why does Sharron avoid the media? Does she think them unfair eventhough she uses them for her bully pulpit?
She would be an enigma if a person could make out just what she wants or represents.

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